What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The canteen at DePuy Synthes’ Beeston factory was filled with over 100 members of the South Leeds Live at Home Scheme (SLLaH) and the choir from Hugh Gaitskell Primary School on Thursday (14 December 2017) for their annual Christmas celebration. This was the fifth Christmas dinner the company has hosted,
On Tuesday (5 December 2017) staff and children at Hugh Gaitskell Primary School, St Anthony’s Drive, Beeston hosted a new look Christmas Fair. Santa paid a special visit in his extraordinary, newly constructed grotto and there were stalls and
Twelve boys from Hugh Gaitskell Primary School in Beeston who have have improved their reading skills this year have been rewarded with a trip to Waterstone’s bookshop. Some boys find reading a difficult habit to adopt, so the school worked with the group using a range of techniques including carefully
Hugh Gaitskell Primary School has been judged as ‘Good’ in the latest Ofsted report dated 27 June 2016. Headteacher Mrs McNulty said she was “extremely delighted” with the judgement. The inspection team recognised the positive ethos of ‘One World, One School’ which underpins all aspects of the “calm and harmonious”
The Leeds City Council’s Inner South Community Committee will be meeting next Wednesday (15 June 2016) and the workshop session will debate highways issues. Committee Chair Cllr Angela Gabriel said: “The theme for the event will be Highways, so if you want to hear about the priorities for the areas
Like many schools in South Leeds, pupils at Hugh Gaitskell in Beeston speak many different languages as well as English. Friday 4 March 2016 was declared Mother Tongue day as the school set aside a day to celebrate the linguistic diversity of the school community. As well as hearing other
Children from Hugh Gaitskell Primary School undertook an environmental audit of their routes to school last Thursday (3 March 2016). A group of Year 5 and 6 pupils were joined by Councillors Angela Gabriel and Adam Ogilvie together with a Police Community Support Officer and Harriet Pickering from the organisation
Beeston-based company DePuy Synthes offers a series of events to mark British Science Week. The Leeds based team of the global medical device manufacturers, DePuy Synthes, is running a special programme of events to support British Science Week 2015 (13–22 March 2015), a nationwide celebration of the best of British
The Commonwealth flag was raised proudly above two civic buildings this week as Leeds once again played its part in a day of celebrations to mark Commonwealth Day. Held on Monday (9 March 2015) the Lord Mayor of Leeds Cllr David Congreve was joined at the official raising of the
Hunslet Hawks have been in touch about this week’s schools tag rugby festival: We have been working hard over the past five weeks in local South Leeds primary schools coaching children in year two how to play tag rugby league, preparing them to play in a fun tag rugby festival.